6 Vagina Myths Women Wish Men Would Stop Believing

From Kegel exercises to vaginal orgasms, it's time to end these myths.

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Ovalioglu, Nilufer. The Female Bouffon

When you were a kid, you probably heard the Greek myth of Persephone’s kidnapping. It goes something like this…

Persephone is minding her own business, picking flowers with her mom, Demeter, when that creeper Hades pulls her into the depths of hell. In the sanitized version, Demeter is so pained by the loss of her daughter that she blights all the crops. Famine ensues, and Zeus is left dealing with millions of starving humans and one pissed-off goddess. 

Here’s the part the PG version left out. 

One day, the old nurse Baubo visits Demeter to talk some sense into her. But instead of begging Demeter to restore the harvest, Baubo simply lifts her skirt and flashes her genitals. 

Now, Baubo must have had some sort of clown car rolling out of her vag because the sight of Baubo’s lady bits makes Demeter laugh her arse off. Demeter is so amused that she decides to stop her brooding and get back to her gardening duties. The end. 

If only that worked today. Women could flash their vulvas to stop famines and wars. But alas, the female genitalia does not have such mythical powers. 

Here are a few more myths surrounding that muscular mucous tube known as the vagina.

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Myth #1: The vagina is a hole.

First off, some usual housekeeping — although the words are often used interchangeably, a vagina is not a vulva. Please note the location in case you ever need to find one.

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Despite the girl bashing you read on the manosphere, the vagina is also not a “hole.” The vagina is a tube that expands and collapses on itself to accommodate a finger, tampon, penis, sex toy, or, if it really has proved its indestructibility…a ten-pound baby. (That was a personal reference.) 

Because the vagina is a closed-off system, you can’t technically lose anything in there. Sure, rogue condoms or tampons can get temporarily stuck, but nothing is getting past the cervix without puncturing it. The vagina has an opening, not a hole. 

Swiss cheese has holes. Buckets have holes. The female genitalia only has a hole when there is a problem. 

Myth #2: Larger penises fill a vagina more.